A federal stimulus bill requirement that Michigan must use federal stimulus funding to replace cuts to education could erase the incentive for MSU to comply with Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s proposed tuition freeze.
Simply having a pregnancy test in their possession leads many women to test more often, which leads to healthier babies, according to research done by an MSU professor.
MSU freshmen, whether they know it or not, are part of the university’s cutting-edge technology. Upon enrollment, first-year students were issued a new form of ID card that allows the university to store larger amounts of data than previous cards. Although other students still have old ID cards, all faculty and staff will transition to the new card this semester.
You wanna be on top? At the MSU’s Next Top Model competition, sponsored by Purpose Organization, 10 girls were put to the test to see if they have what it takes to be a serious model.
It’s once again that time to guess the outcome of this weekend’s games with the State News prognosticators.
Nobody wants to finish in last place. But with the 10th place MSU hockey team playing a home-and-home series against last place Bowling Green this weekend, it’s not farfetched to say the loser of the weekend might finish at the bottom of the pile in the CCHA this season.
Whatever Michigan guard Manny Harris tried to do, it simply wouldn’t work. The Wolverines’ 6-foot-5 guard tried to drive through the lane, post up in the paint and spot up from three, but wherever he went on Feb. 10, MSU senior guard Travis Walton was there in his face.
MSU Department of Residence Life exists to be helpful to students, not make situations worse. I didn’t have confidence in them before; Now I know that they are not an option for me.
As a member of the greek community, when I first read Ursula Zerilli’s article First Sparty straightens record (SN 2/17), I applauded the fact the greek community was given some positive feedback and showing some of the positive sides of greek life — the random productivity that can occur on sleepless nights when a few members of one of the greek organizations decides they really want to do something great.
The omnipresence of clichés is not only a harsh reality but a troubling communicative issue. Reliance on long-standing phrases — as engrained as the Rock of Gibraltar — saps the precision and inherent novelty from any event or idea. We should keep a watchful eye on our word choice, lest we move toward an Orwellian world of simple-minded Newspeak that flattens our thoughts, damaging the quality of thought.
There are protesters. There are talks of a boycott. There’s blatant racism.
Michigan wouldn’t have access to the federal stimulus package if it follows through with Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s proposed 3 percent cut to universities next year, according to a state official.
A top ranking student government position is in limbo after ASMSU’s Academic Assembly chairperson stepped down Tuesday evening. The resignation came a week after his performance was called into question.
MSU students and faculty will have company when they move into the College of Human Medicine’s Grand Rapids campus in 2010. At last Friday’s meeting, the MSU Board of Trustees approved a 10-year lease to Ferris State University’s College of Pharmacy, giving Ferris’ program access to the Secchia Center’s seventh floor.
MSU chemical engineering professor Dennis Miller spends his days researching a seed 1/16th of an inch in diameter. The canola seed, which can be used to produce biodiesel, could be one answer to achieving energy independence, he said.
General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC, two venerable titans of American industry, will burn through $17.4 billion in government loans in three months and want billions more to stay alive.
The deadline for entries into a recycled art exhibit for Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero’s Greater Lansing Go Green! Initiative has been extended until Friday.
About 10,000 college students from around the nation, including about 70 from MSU, will travel to Washington, D.C., on Feb. 27 to engage in Power Shift ’09 — a youth conference to influence Congress and the Obama administration to enact legislation to combat global warming.
Imagine a world where a plant could be engineered for a specific job. It might sound like a scenario out of a science fiction novel, but biochemistry and molecular biology professor Robert Last is working on just that.
Former MSU football player Craig Johnson was sentenced Tuesday to more than six years in prison for robbing two banks in December 2007 and January 2008, a federal court clerk said.